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THOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS
FR·732 granted patents·31,276 citations·filing 1988–1999
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732 records- 0199US5754651AProcessing and storage of digital data and program specific informationTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1996·Granted May 19, 1998·436 cites·29 claims
- 0298US5515106AMethod and apparatus for transmitting/receiving a program guide for television servicesTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1994·Granted May 7, 1996·270 cites·18 claims
- 0398US4914517ATuner control apparatus having tune-by-label capability and using alphabetical label storageTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1989·Granted Apr 3, 1990·249 cites·8 claims
- 0498US4819252ASampled data subsampling apparatusTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1988·Granted Apr 4, 1989·119 cites·12 claims
- 0597US6034925AAccessing control method for identifying a recording medium in a jukeboxTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1996·Granted Mar 7, 2000·318 cites·12 claims
- 0697US6016348ADecoding system and data format for processing and storing encrypted broadcast, cable or satellite video dataTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1996·Granted Jan 18, 2000·360 cites·25 claims
- 0797US5867226AScheduler employing a predictive agent for use in a television receiverTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1995·Granted Feb 2, 1999·628 cites·9 claims
- 0897US5838873APacketized data formats for digital data storage mediaTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1996·Granted Nov 17, 1998·146 cites·16 claims
- 0997US5682206AConsumer interface for programming deviceTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1995·Granted Oct 28, 1997·357 cites·10 claims
- 1097US5642153AConsumer interface for a digital television systemTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1994·Granted Jun 24, 1997·220 cites·7 claims
- 1197US5625693AApparatus and method for authenticating transmitting applications in an interactive TV systemTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1995·Granted Apr 29, 1997·311 cites·23 claims
- 1297US5448568ASystem of transmitting an interactive TV signalTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1994·Granted Sep 5, 1995·290 cites·9 claims
- 1397US5388062AReconfigurable programmable digital filter architecture useful in communication receiverTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1993·Granted Feb 7, 1995·138 cites·17 claims
- 1497US4866434AMulti-brand universal remote controlTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1988·Granted Sep 12, 1989·256 cites·7 claims
- 1596US6031795AMethod and apparatus for programming a jukebox with information related to content on media contained thereinTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1996·Granted Feb 29, 2000·142 cites·15 claims
- 1696US5621458AAudio and video docking and control systemTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1994·Granted Apr 15, 1997·76 cites·14 claims
- 1796US5557338ATelevision receiver using received channel guide information and a secondary video signal processor for displaying secondary channel informationTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1995·Granted Sep 17, 1996·349 cites·9 claims
- 1896US5477285ACRT developing apparatusTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1993·Granted Dec 19, 1995·99 cites·25 claims
- 1996US5400075AAdaptive variable length encoder/decoderTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1993·Granted Mar 21, 1995·324 cites·18 claims
- 2096US5398074AProgrammable picture-outside-picture displayTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1994·Granted Mar 14, 1995·341 cites·13 claims
- 2196US5222082AShift register useful as a select line scanner for liquid crystal displayTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1991·Granted Jun 22, 1993·205 cites·5 claims
- 2296US5091785APicture-in-picture circuitry using field rate synchronizationTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1989·Granted Feb 25, 1992·158 cites·20 claims
- 2395US5933500AAdaptive decoding system for processing encrypted and non-encrypted broadcast, cable or satellite video dataTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1996·Granted Aug 3, 1999·213 cites·20 claims
- 2495US5819034AApparatus for transmitting and receiving executable applications as for a multimedia systemTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1994·Granted Oct 6, 1998·281 cites·9 claims
- 2595US5563648AMethod for controlling execution of an audio video interactive programTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1994·Granted Oct 8, 1996·206 cites·18 claims
- 2695US5430485AAudio/video synchronization in a digital transmission systemTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1993·Granted Jul 4, 1995·318 cites·14 claims
- 2795US5375006ATwisted nematic liquid crystal display devices with optical axis of birefringent layer inclined with respect to birefringent layer normalTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1993·Granted Dec 20, 1994·165 cites·14 claims
- 2895US5317403AFavorite channel selection using extended keypressTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1992·Granted May 31, 1994·227 cites·11 claims
- 2995US5136371ADigital image coding using random scanningTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1990·Granted Aug 4, 1992·204 cites·5 claims
- 3094US5903816AInteractive television system and method for displaying web-like stills with hyperlinksTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1996·Granted May 11, 1999·557 cites·75 claims
- 3194US5701136ALiquid crystal display driver with threshold voltage drift compensationTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1995·Granted Dec 23, 1997·183 cites·11 claims
- 3294US5548532AApparatus and method for formulating an interactive TV signalTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1994·Granted Aug 20, 1996·192 cites·22 claims
- 3394US5486871AAutomatic letterbox detectionTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1991·Granted Jan 23, 1996·127 cites·14 claims
- 3494US5473609AMethod and apparatus for processing a conditional access program guide as for a satellite TV serviceTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1994·Granted Dec 5, 1995·173 cites·11 claims
- 3594US5453796ASignal swap apparatus for a television receiver having an HDTV main picture signal processor and an NTSC Pix-in-Pix signal processorTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1994·Granted Sep 26, 1995·179 cites·10 claims
- 3694US5434899APhase clocked shift register with cross connecting between stagesTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1994·Granted Jul 18, 1995·163 cites·12 claims
- 3794US5351095AMethod and device for estimating and hierarchically coding the motion of sequences of imagesTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1990·Granted Sep 27, 1994·155 cites·11 claims
- 3893US5841433ADigital television system channel guide having a limited lifetimeTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1997·Granted Nov 24, 1998·188 cites·6 claims
- 3993US5625406AUnified program guide interfaceTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1996·Granted Apr 29, 1997·205 cites·27 claims
- 4093US5625464AContinuous television transmission reproduction and playbackTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1994·Granted Apr 29, 1997·170 cites·15 claims
- 4193US5619501AConditional access filter as for a packet video signal inverse transport systemTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1994·Granted Apr 8, 1997·111 cites·12 claims
- 4293US5517542AShift register with a transistor operating in a low duty cycleTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1995·Granted May 14, 1996·150 cites·7 claims
- 4393US5475754APacket video signal inverse transport processor memory address circuitryTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1994·Granted Dec 12, 1995·129 cites·20 claims
- 4493US5459789APacket TV program component detectorTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1994·Granted Oct 17, 1995·138 cites·12 claims
- 4593US5428400AEnabling a display of closed captioning status upon detecting a code of a proper subset of closed-caption data codesTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1993·Granted Jun 27, 1995·167 cites·17 claims
- 4693US5351087ATwo stage interpolation systemTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1991·Granted Sep 27, 1994·142 cites·20 claims
- 4793US5311309ALuminance processing system for compressing and expanding video dataTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1991·Granted May 10, 1994·139 cites·3 claims
- 4893US5159292AAdaptive phase locked loopTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1992·Granted Oct 27, 1992·86 cites·10 claims
- 4993US5144424AApparatus for video data quantization controlTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1991·Granted Sep 1, 1992·173 cites·9 claims
- 5093US5113259AData transfer from an external computer to a television receiver having picture-in-picture capabilityTHOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS·Filed 1990·Granted May 12, 1992·157 cites·6 claims
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